Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

That we'll kpown and popular magazine,
the North American Review" with its
January number begins the Hath volume Of
its useful existance. The principal articles
are: The Renaissance of Nationalism,
by Judge Tourgee; :" Socialism; Its Fall
lacies and Dangers" by Chas. Bradlaugh
a." Progress of Minnesota" by theiGovernor
" Future OF the National Banking System"
by 5ohn Jay Knox; & Good Works of False
Faiths" by Gail Hamilton " The Anthra-
cite Coal Pool" by James f. Hudson
Some War Memoranda" by Walt Whit
man why am / a New Churchmau?h
by Rev. James Reed The Constitutional
Amendments" by Chief Justice Chase
A" What Shall be Done with the Surplus ~
by W. NJ. eros venor; a Labor in Pennsyl-
vania," Henry George; Burnside's Con-
troversies with Lincoln t. Religion, by
George Sand +" Henry Georges Land Tax"
by Edward Gordon Clark; Are the
Heather our Interiors; by Jos. Hewes
Defense of the President" by Dom
Piatt, which, together with the usual notes,
make up most interesting volume for the
reader.
Advance sheets of the =" Overland Month
ly " for February are at hand. This num-
Der is replete with valuable information
tinued serials. Shoshuki Sato a japanese,
contributes six-page article on " The
japanese Farming Glass;" and f. NJ. z.
Deas has short narrative; three more
parts to the Pentacooset Colony are given
by its author, Leonard Kip; from the pen
of B. Marks is a long argument on the
riparian decision in interior California
chapter xiv. of " Chata and Chinita," by
Louise Palmer Hearen ; John S. Hitteil
gives "reminiscences, a story of life on
the plains and in the mines in early days.
Recent fiction. book reviews, etc. together
with articles of lesser merit, complete the
number. The Overland is engaged in
presenting the special claims of sections of
California by writing them up for its adj
vertisins columns, and is thus disseminat-
ing needed information and conserving
desirable immigration.
The popular Science Monthly" for
February. D. Appleton & Co., New York,
is at hand. In addition to the usual liter
airy notes, popular miscellany, correspond
ence and general notes the most worthy
articles are THE Laws of Habit" by FRO
fessor VIM James 1.-The South African
Diamond Mines" " Science and Morals A
Reply" by Professor Huxley; Material
ism and Morality by W. S. Lilly; Full
gerites, or Lightning Holes" by George 2.
Merrill disagreement of Great Cities"
by Frank Z. Crandon "Fetichism and
Anthropomorphism," by George Pellew
Some Points in the Land Question" by
Oliver B. Bunce "Science in Religious
Education" by D. G. Thompson; Sketch
of Charles C. Abbott with portrait) and
Views of Life in the Crazy Mountains,
by Mrs. E. D. w. Hatch.
John B. Alden, New York, has contrib
70 he for Nv,
some of the best standard works into such
form that thousands of readers can obtain
them who would otherwise be inhibited
practically from enjoying them. OF this
order is Rawlinson's Ancient Egypt"
with several hundred illustrations. 1t is
one Of the very best histories of Egypt put
to press, and is recent as it was not COM
pleted until $780, 1t is complete in two
large 12mo vols, fine CLOTH gilt tops, at
81 % for the set
Cassell's National Library, of which we
have frequently made mention, adds to its
already long list of standard publications
the following: Undine and the Two
Captains" by Fouque :" Confessions of an
Inquiring Spirit" by Coleridge; " As You
Like i" by Shakespeare; Johnson's
Hebrides - Carols and Chimes and
the Christian Year." by Rev John Keble
The above-named volumes may be had of
G. S. Houghton, bookseller Sacramento
for ten cents each.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have OF Harpers popular library
series, known as the franklin Square
these numbers "She," novel, BY H.
Rider Haggard; John Westacott,"
novel, by James Baker; Pastin Carew,
Millionaire and Miser," a novel, by Mrs.
Z. Lynn Lynton; Sir James Appleby,
Bart" a novel, by Katharine s. Mac
quoid.
From John 3. Alden, New York, we
have, in his new narrow page form land a
most commendable one) Henry Drum
monds' Natural Law in the Spiritual
World" 1t is this book Bishop Deane
pronounced, "a great work" and of which
Biehop Coke said, "Iti is grand reading for
the clergy"
OF Harper & Bros Handy Series, issued
weekly, at triding price compared to the
literary value of the publications, No. Sc,
''Aallan Locke, Tailor and Poet" by
Charles Kingsley, and Moss, Joan
Wentworth" novel, by Katharine S.
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- Dear Life - is a novel by j. E. Panton,
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characters and of continued and dramatic
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G. S. Houghton, Sacramento; % cents.
OF the " Life of John C. Fremont" be-
ing written by himself, and which we have
already noticed, we haze from Belford
Clarke Il Co., Chicago and New York, parts
2 and 3, both richly illustrated.